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dato ; genis maculu nigrd Hotatis ; auricularibus griseis; gula, ventre, 

 crissogue albis ; lateribus castaneis ; rostro pedibusgue purpurascenti- 

 griseis. 



Long. corp. 5į unc. ; rostri, §; ala, 3; caudce, 2į; tarsi, 1. 



Hab. in Australia, apud flumen Murrumbidgee dictum. 



ZOSTEROPS TENUIROSTRIS, GouM, 



Zost. vertice capitis, nuchd, guld, thoracegue viridi-flavis ; ocvlo 

 plumulis albis circumdato ; dorso, scapulis, olivaceo-griseis ; primariis 

 rectricibusque viridi late viarginatis ; ventre, crissoque brunneo-flavis ; 

 rostra pedibusęue brunneis. 



Long. corp. 5f unc; rostri, į; ala, 2^; caudee, 2^; tarsi, į. 



Hub. in Australia apud flumen Murrumbidgee dictum. 



They are the two largest known species of the genus. 



Notės b J' W. C. Williamson, Esq., Curator to the Natūrai History 

 Society, Manchester, on the appearance of rare Birds in the vicinity 

 of Scarborough were then read, of which the following is an abs- 

 tract. 



" The prominent position of Scarborough with its projecting 

 headlandci separated by deep bays and its high hills covered \vith 

 Avood, renderthe neighbourhood a favourite retreat for various tribes 

 of birds. Among the spring visitors the Siskin maybe enumerated, 

 which appears in April, remaining only a few days apparently on its 

 route to breeding-places farther north. It is never seen at any other 

 period of the year, though considered by authors as a winter visitor. 

 Severai examples of the Hoopoe, and one specimen of the Roller, 

 have been shot in the neighbourhood. The stomach of the latter 

 was filled with the elytra and other remains of a species of CurcuUo. 

 Of the Water Ouzel or Dipper it is stated that, vi'hen fljHng Aovra a 

 stream it drops into the v^ater and dives under any rails laid across 

 from bank to bank, rather than fly over them, rising on the opposite 

 side and pursuing its course. The nešt of this bird is occasionally 

 seen so placed under a projecting ledge that a fall of water wa8 con- 

 stantly rolling over it, thus rendering it secure from any attacks : 

 the birds entering by the sides of the fall. 



" The Rediving has been seen as late as May; these birds are re- 

 markable for a peculiar cry uttered when disturbed and about to take 

 flight. 



"The Hooded Crotv has been known to breed near Scarborough 

 on two or three occasions. In one instance, a female Hooded Crow 

 ■tt-as observed to pair with a Carrion C'roio on a large tree at Hack- 

 ness. where they succeeded in rearing their young. The Carrion 

 Croir was shot by the gamekeeper, but the following year the 

 Hooded Crow retumed vvith a new mate of the šame sable hue as the 

 former one to her old nešt. The carrion and young crows were 

 again all shot ; the old female by her vigilance escaped all the ef- 

 forts of the keepers to destroy her, and a third time retumed with 

 a fresh mate ; she was not however again so successful, but was 

 shot. and is now preserved in the Scarborough Museum. The young 



